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Everything can be reversed. Everything.

By ⋅ July 25, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

I recently started reverse engineering BlackBerry applications.  I have done it before, but this time around, I focused a lot more effort and energy on it.  In short, BlackBerry apps can be decompiled; enough to the point where you can begin to write keygens for them.  Yes, much like back in the good old days. [...]

BlackBerry Hidden Program Revealer v0.1

By ⋅ July 17, 2009 ⋅ 29 comments

Okay, for real this time.  Continuing from my previous post, I’ve got version 0.1 of the HiddenProgs app available for download.  Grab your copy here.  The way I installed it was to just navigate to the link using my Bold.  By downloading the program, you’re acknowledging you’ve read and understood the disclaimer below. Description The [...]

Etisalat BlackBerry Spyware Revealer

By ⋅ July 16, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

I wrote a spyware busting tool for the Etisalat Spyware that was recently installed on BlackBerries across the UAE. I am waiting to get my Code Signing Keys sorted from RIM before I can release it publicly. Mail me for the source.

Dissecting the GoDaddy email notifier – Part 4

By ⋅ August 3, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Ok, this is hopefully the last part of my Dissecting series for the email notifier. I last left you with the fact that I had reverse engineered the encryption and decryption algorithm. I simply poked around the calls to the registry key write function calls and found the encryption and decryption routines. I will list [...]

Dissecting the GoDaddy email notifier – Part 3

By ⋅ July 29, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s been sometime since I made a post and that kinda sucks. I’ve been a bit swamped with work and have not had any real time to do my own stuff. Presently out in Cairo. Pyramids are phun. You must be wondering why the hell I chose OllyDbg to make a simple hex edit in [...]

Dissecting the GoDaddy email notifier – Part 2

By ⋅ July 13, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Welcome back. In our last installment, we had just figured out that the GoDaddy Email notifier uses SSL to communicate with the server. Today, I will look at ways of trying to bypass this and sniff traffic in order to figure out how the client communicates with the server. Like I described in my previous [...]

Dissecting the GoDaddy email notifier – Part 1

By ⋅ July 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I host at GoDaddy. Yes, yes, I know there have been horror stories and there is even a site that lists incidents involving the shutting down of some sites with little or no warning; but they’re dirt cheap and I’m poor so… Anyway, GoDaddy has this email notifier which will check your mailbox to see [...]

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